Empowering Youth

CAN DO

As youth and young adults begin to develop their own social identities and receive messages of exclusion, Just Communities provides opportunities for them to confront issues that divide their homes, schools, and communities.

CLI Staff Applications 2012!

Youth Ally and Youth Leader

Leadership Team Applications will be available until all the positions are filled.

CLI - CommUnity Leadership Institute

Each year, Just Communities' CommUnity Leadership Instituteprepares 50 Central Coast high school students to understand injustice in the world and translate that understanding into positive action in their schools and communities. The eight day residential program is a unique opportunity where young people from diverse backgrounds explore their multifaceted identities, learn how to recognize and counter bias and gain advocacy skills and tools to bring back to their schools and communities. Activities include discussion groups, role playing, learning exercises and presentations on a variety of human relations and social justice issues. Young people participate in and learn from activities which focus on ethnic and racial identity, stereotyping, communication, family issues, racism, homophobia, sexism, and classism.

Download your CLI 2012 Participant Application here

CAN DO - Change Agent Network for Dismantling Oppression

CAN DO is the year round follow-up and networking program for Just Communities' CommUnity Leadership Institute (CLI). The program is completely youth-run and youth-led, and the goals of CAN DO are:

to support CLI graduates to create real and meaningful change for social justice,
to increase the education and awareness of CLI graduates and their guests,
to prepare CLI graduates to become effective youth leaders and facilitators in the community, future Institutes, and other Just Communities programs.

The CAN DO Leadership Team is made up of CLI graduates throughout the Central Coast. The Leadership Team will gain experience in planning, public speaking, facilitating, organizing, understanding group dynamics and effective networking with their peers as they support their change agent goals and efforts for the school year.